As Wildfires Linger, Focus Turns to Rebuilding in Los Angeles
Here’s where the Los Angeles wildfires stand — after leveling an area more than twice the size of Manhattan
The iconic landscape of Los Angeles County and its surrounding region have been forever transformed by a massive, multi-front firestorm that has leveled an area more than twice the size of
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7 statistics that put the devastation of the Los Angeles wildfires into perspective
The Palisades Wildfire Is Currently Bigger Than Manhattan, And More Stunning Facts That Show Just How Big The LA Wildfires Are
For more perspective, Central Park in NYC is only 843 acres. So, the wildfire is currently the equivalent of almost 24 Central Parks combined. Actually, the entirety of Manhattan is 14,600 acres, or 22.81 square miles, so the Palisades Fire is bigger than the whole borough.
California Fires Map Shows Size of Area Burned Compared to Other Cities
The wildfires in Southern California have led to the evacuations of over 130,000 people and have destroyed over 10,000 structures. Overlaying the wildfire outbreak across other major U.S. cities shows that the blaze is one of the worst in United States history, as it continues to spread across residential areas in Los Angeles.
Elapses size of San Francisco: LA fires carve mark on history
Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County Wednesday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.
Paradise Destroyed: Fire Razes LA Enclave Bigger Than Manhattan
The Pacific Palisades blaze has wreaked havoc on over 5,000 structures and is set to reshape Los Angeles long after it burns out.
What's Wrong With a Private Firefighter?
What this means, the newspaper explains, is that proper management is not really about preventing wildfires "but instead preventing points of ignition within communities by employing 'home-hardening' strategies—proper landscaping, fire-resistant siding—and enjoining neighbors in collective efforts such as brush clearing."
Maps show that Palisades Fire is bigger than Manhattan
The Palisades Fire, the largest and the first to spark, has grown quickly because of the dry and vicious Santa Ana winds after igniting Tuesday morning. As of Friday, the fire has scorched through 20,438 acres in Malibu and Pacific Palisades and is at 8% containment as of 10:43 a.m., according to Cal Fire.
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Dozens of Los Angeles residents — some armed — are defying evacuation orders to protect their homes in ‘Wild West’
“I could be having a Manhattan and a steak ... ‘I just want to go to my house and see what’s left,’” Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said at a Monday briefing.
The L.A. Fires Expose a Web of Governments, Weak by Design
One of the two major fires that devastated this region — the Eaton fire — is not even in the city of Los Angeles; it is in an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County. The response to the Eaton fire was led by the county fire department; the city fire department was at the forefront in fighting the Palisades fire.
The Push and Pull of Los Angeles: Beauty and Danger
Somini Sengupta, a climate reporter who has lived across Los Angeles, reflects on the city, its mythology and its reckoning with disaster.
L.A. fires: Will Trump immigration crackdown slow rebuilding?
L.A.'s wildfire recovery may be on a collision course with Trump's immigration policy. Southern California's construction industry is heavily reliant on immigrant labor.
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Climate Whiplash and Fire Come to L.A.
Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the phenomenon is on the rise worldwide.